Readers Theater

​While in the past, and generally what most such festivals do, is hold their events over the course of a single weekend or even two; we thought we’d try something different to reach out to more people and find new participants and new 
audiences.  So we’ve spread the festival out over many weeks, and in two phases, starting in spring and carrying on well into summer.  In the past, it was down into several segments often competing against each other on a weekend — this way they are consecutive so that more attention can be given to a single aspect — and placed around the county so that audiences not usually drawn to something across town might be able to take in a program they would normally miss.

So we started with the Readers Theater — a format in which staged readings of new plays by local and selected regional authors can be heard, and where local performing talent can be given a place to shine.  To expand, we would also record as many of these performances as possible so that exposure on radio and the internet would help broadcast the results (further info added to our site).

This year, the playwrights picked were:

Gail Buntin Blohowiak          Arianna Rose
Michael Lucchesi       Allison Fradkin
Dan Morra        Regina Cooper
Germaine Shames     Jordan Noble
Francis Higgins                (and Nimbus’s own) Ron Schaefer

The Plays Offered This Year Are:

Let Them Eat SPAM; The Ripple Effect
The Perilous Game; Heard Mentality
C12-H22-O11 An Acquired Taste; Denial
Better Tenants;  Girl X Two

And a recycling of last years plays for another go around:

Myrva The Devil That Plagues Her
White Man’s Justice    Job
The Refugees; Gun Play; The Rapists